Senior editor TC Sottek and colleagues at The Verge tested Google's new Gemini AI agent, Spark, and found it could infer personal details such as a tester's dog's name and a spouse's first name withou…
Google's new Gemini AI agent, Spark, demonstrated unsettling effectiveness by accessing personal details about users without explicit disclosure, including a reporter's dog's name and his colleague's …
Data science and data analytics are distinct career paths with different focuses, skills, and educational requirements. Data analytics interprets existing data to identify trends and inform business d…
Nearly 40% of active Data Engineer job postings now mention AI, with 17.4% explicitly requiring generative AI skills like LLMs, RAG, and AI agents, according to an analysis of 6,736 listings on Interv…
Microsoft Fabric has introduced AI Functions that integrate generative AI directly into pandas and Spark workflows as standard data transformation steps, rather than requiring separate chatbot applica…
At the Apache Iceberg Summit, Google Cloud announced a preview of a serverless Iceberg REST catalog for BigQuery, enabling teams to create, update, and query the same Iceberg tables across engines lik…
This article, the final part of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass, outlines three strategies for migrating existing data to Iceberg: in-place migration, full rewrite, and shadow migration. It expla…
This article, Part 13 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass, outlines three primary methods for streaming data into Iceberg tables: Spark Structured Streaming, Apache Flink, and the Iceberg Sink Con…
Apache Iceberg provides queryable metadata tables that allow users to inspect table internals using standard SQL, enabling tasks such as health checks, performance debugging, and change auditing. Key …
This article, part 10 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass, explains the four key maintenance operations required to keep Iceberg tables healthy: compaction, snapshot expiry, orphan file cleanup, a…
Following the Google I/O 2026 keynote, The Vergecast discussed the event's highlights, focusing on Google's new "agents" for AI utility, model updates including the Gemini Omni family, and the integra…
For the first time in 25 years, Google has redesigned its iconic search box, transforming it from a simple keyword input into a dynamic, AI-driven interface that accepts text, images, PDFs, and videos…